Dear Friends of Chilkat Inlet Retreat, borough assembly, planning commission, planner Dave Long and Mayor Olerud, Thank you for your efforts regarding our recent zoning petition. It was an unusual situation and the outpouring of community support to help us stay in business fills us with gratitude for you all. We know everyone has a lot on […]
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Duly Noted
Erik Stevens and Kayla Shutes were married on July 21 at the Chilkat Inlet Retreat. The couple had dated for three years and were engaged for seven months. Stevens’ and Shutes’ parents and siblings traveled to Haines for the wedding. Jeffrey Moskowitz was the best man. Stevens said Travis Kukull “cooked up the best wedding food any of us ever had” and […]
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Moratorium on new Chilkoot tours lifted
By Lucy Silbaugh The Haines Borough Assembly voted Tuesday to rescind a four-year-old moratorium on new commercial tours in the Chilkoot Corridor. The decision followed a June 30 recommendation from the borough’s Tourism Advisory Board (TAB). “Retaining the moratorium does not allow for fair competition,” TAB chair Barbara Nettleton wrote in the board’s letter to the assembly, […]
Posted inNews, Haines Borough
Assembly to weigh sales tax reallocation for ballot
The Haines Borough Assembly will discuss on Aug. 9 whether Oct. 4 election ballots should include questions about sales tax reallocation, including redirecting some revenues from tourism and economic development to capital projects. “I think we are collecting sales tax in an appropriate amount, but I think we are not allocating it correctly,” said assembly member Debra Schnabel. […]
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Borough manager scores highly in assembly’s nine-month evaluation
The Haines Borough Assembly gave borough manager Annette Kreitzer “above average” marks in an evaluation nine months into her job. The evaluation leaves the assembly poised to extend Kreitzer’s contract through September 2024. Assembly member Caitie Kirby said at a Tuesday personnel committee meeting she has seen “steady, gradual improvement” in Kreitzer’s job performance since her three-month […]
Posted inDuly Noted
Duly Noted
Erik Stevens and Kayla Shutes were married on July 21 at the Chilkat Inlet Retreat. The couple had dated for three years and were engaged for seven months. Stevens’ and Shutes’ parents and siblings traveled to Haines for the wedding. Jeffrey Moskowitz was the best man. Stevens said Travis Kukull “cooked up the best wedding […]
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Haines joins effort to create first “green corridor” for cruise ships
Haines will join a group effort to explore the possibility of a maritime “green corridor” – a very early-stage emissions-reducing project – connecting Alaska, British Columbia and Washington state. The Haines Borough Assembly voted unanimously at its July 12 meeting to sign the “first mover commitment,” in which it agreed to work with other partners to “define […]
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Renewed plans for Hilltop subdivision clear first hurdle
The Haines Borough Planning Commission on July 14 approved the preliminary plat for Highland Estates’ 65-lot Hilltop subdivision–an area that comprises 37 acres of land south of Major Road. The project has been paused since 2015, when developer Roger Schnabel received preliminary plat approval. Schnabel told the CVN he decided to drop the project in 2015 because […]
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Towns look for answers to public toilet shortage at tourism’s peak
Most every town in Southeast faces a similar summer problem: boatloads of visitors and not enough public toilets. Some communities have built additional public restrooms, and Sitka this summer is paying downtown businesses willing to open their facilities to the public. Under a new grant program, Sitka has succeeded in opening six business restrooms to […]
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Borough can do more to limit dumping
The patient and hard-working president of Haines Friends of Recycling recently summarized that illegal trash dumping in the Chilkat Valley cannot be curtailed due to the “lack of enforcement.” While technically true, Melissa Aronson’s remark in the CVN skirted a key point of public interest. The routine method by which a community can retrieve 99.999% […]